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Definitions: Abreast |
AbreastAdjective1. Beside one another in a row or rank; "they came down the street two abreast". Adverb1. Alongside each other, facing on the same direction. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "abreast" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Abreast \A*breast"\, adverb. [Prefix a- breast.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | Position of a ship in relation to another or to a recognizable mark or place, being directly opposite to the ship, mark, or place. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Abreast Side by side, the breasts being all in a line. The ships were all abreast - i.e., their heads were all equally advanced, as soldiers marching abreast. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Transportation | 90 degrees from the ship's head. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: AbreastSynonym: arow (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: side-to-side (transportation). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Equality | Verb: be equal; Adjective: equal, match,reach, keep pace with, run abreast; come to, amount to, come up to; be on a level with, lie on a level with; balance; cope with; come to the same thing. |
Laterality | Adverb: sideways, sidelong; broadside on; on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside; by the side of; side by side; cheek by jowl; (near); to windward, to leeward; laterally; Adjective: right and left; on her beam ends. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Abreast |
| English words defined with "abreast": abreast of, Against, au courant, au fait ♦ Curricle ♦ Evener ♦ keep abreast ♦ Quadriga ♦ rank, refresher, refresher course ♦ side by side ♦ troika ♦ up on. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "abreast": CHIEF PETROLEUM ENGINEER ♦ DESIGN ENGINEER, FACILITIES, director, product assurance, DIRECTOR, QUALITY ASSURANCE, DRIVER, STARTING GATE ♦ FIELD HAULER ♦ MANAGER, PROFESSIONAL EQUIPMENT SALES-AND-SERVICE. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Subscribing to targeted periodicals can be an effective way to stay abreast of recent developments on Marfan syndrome. (references) | |
Business | However, they cannot keep abreast of fast-changing technologies. (references) | |
Saudis feel this information keeps them abreast of the latest developments in the IT field. (references) | ||
Saudi contacts are of prime importance when keeping abreast of developments, directives and upcoming projects. (references) | ||
Economic History | Bahamas | The level of medical care in The Bahamas is continuously developing to keep abreast with medical technology. (references) |
Vietnam | A close relationship allows the foreign supplier to keep abreast of the changes and developments in local market conditions and assess the competitiveness of its products. (references) | |
Tanzania | These include advertising; training key personnel in the product; keeping them abreast of all changes; providing them with calendars, diaries, key rings for free distribution to customers and maintaining a fairly well trained cadre of servicing technicians capable of advising customers, servicing their equipment and repairing it. Many firms in Tanzania do not give a high priority to customer support, and as such, suffer from the lack of customer loyalty. (references) | |
Human Rights | Brazil | Inmates sleep three abreast on top of mattresses laid on a concrete floor. (references) |
Trade | Norway | However, with more EEA regulations coming, it will probably gradually become more complicated for inexperienced U.S. exporters to Norway who do not have agents, since agents can more easily keep abreast of rule changes. (references) |
Travel | Kenya | Travelers should follow the printed and electronic media to keep abreast of where and when any political rallies and demonstrations are likely to occur, and of the potential for confrontation. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Abreast" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Abreast" is used about 196 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 196 | 21,868 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "abreast": abreast of ♦ abreast of the times ♦ abreast of times ♦ abreast with ♦ four abreast ♦ keep abreast ♦ keep abreast of ♦ keep abreast of events ♦ keep abreast with smb. ♦ line abreast information ♦ march two abreast. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "abreast": two-abreast. | |
Containing "abreast": five-abreast passenger seating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
abreast | 17 |
abreast choicepoint issue keep | 4 |
abreast survivor | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "abreast"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | në një hap me, krah për krah. (various references) | |
Arabic | من جانب واحد (unilateral), جنبا إلى جنب (alongside). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | редом, рамо до рамо, на едно ниво, на един ред, един до друг (alongside, cheek by jowl, side by side, together). (various references) | |
Chinese | 熟悉 (Acquaint, Acquainting, Familiar, familiarisation, familiarise, familiarised, familiarising, Familiarities, Familiarity, Familiarization, Familiarize, Familiarized, Familiarizing, knowingly), 並肩 (alongside, shoulder to shoulder, side by side), 並' (side by side). (various references) | |
Czech | vedle sebe, v jedné řadì, bok po boku (shoulder to shoulder, side by side). (various references) | |
Danish | tvaers (abeam, athwart), tværs (across, beyond, on the other side of). (various references) | |
Dutch | naast elkaar. (various references) | |
Esperanto | iranta sampaŝe, flankon ĉe flanko. (various references) | |
Farsi | پهلوبه پهلو (Collateral), برابر (Breast, Equal, Equivalent, Plain, Square, Tantamount). (various references) | |
Finnish | poikittain (across, athwart, athwartships, crosswise, transversely), kohdalla. (various references) | |
French | travers (par le) (abeam), par le travers, de front, côté côté, bord bord, la hauteur de, côté de l'autre. (various references) | |
German | Nebeneinander (at the same time, juxtaposition, neck and neck, side by side, simultaneously), Seite an Seite (side-by-side). (various references) | |
Greek | κατά μέτωπο, ένασ δίπλα στον άλλο, στο ύψος, στο ίδιο ύψοσ ή επίπεδο, προσ τα εμπρόσ (forward, onward, vanward), παραπλεύρως, παραπλευρώσ (alongside, beside), απέναντι (across, opposite), δίπλα-δίπλα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שכם אח" (together, unanimously), ק"ימ" (advancement, ahead, along, eastwards, forward, onward, onwards, precedence, preferment), ז" בצ" ז" (side by side). (various references) | |
Hungarian | egymás mellett (next to each other, side by side), párhuzamosan (in parallel, parallel, side by side). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sederet (a line of). (various references) | |
Italian | fianco a fianco (side by side). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 並行 (at the same time, concurrent, occurring together, parallel, parallelism, side by side), 並列 (arrangement, parallel). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | へい"う (at the same time, balance, closing a school, concurrent, equalization, equilibrium, even scale, occurring together, offering, parallel, parallelism, shut mouth, side by side, tribute), へいれつ (arrangement, parallel). (various references) | |
Korean | 나란히 (Alongside). (various references) | |
Manx | gob ry ghib (even), geaylin ry gheaylin (shoulder to shoulder), er un linney. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abreastay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lado a lado (alongside, side by side). (various references) | |
Romanian | alãturi (alongside, by, close aboard, together), în rând, în aceeaşi linie. (various references) | |
Russian | в ряд, на траверзе (abeam). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | u toku (afoot, during, on-going, progress: in progress, underway, way: under way), jedan pored drugoga. (various references) | |
Spanish | de frente (frontwards, head, head on, head-on, line). (various references) | |
Swedish | jämsides. (various references) | |
Thai | อยู่ระ"ับเ"ียวกับ (remain abreast of), รักษาระ"ับของ (keep abreast of), ยืนยัน (assert, avow, ratify, remain abreast of, seal). (various references) | |
Turkish | aynı hizada (in alignment with, on a level with), yan yana (adjoining, alongside, at close quarters, cheek by jowl, side by side). (various references) | |
Ukranian | врівень, на рівні, на одній лінії, поруч (adjacently, against, alongside, anear, by, close, hard by, nigh, side by side, unto), поряд. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sóng h ng, sát vai, ngang nhau; sát nhau, cùng h ng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Abreast" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aberarth, abraxas, abrest, arbogast. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "abreast" (pronounced ubre"st) |
| 5 | -b r e" s t | breast. |
| 4 | -r e" s t | addressed, compressed, crest, depressed, digressed, distressed, dressed, expressed, impressed, oppressed, pressed, Prest, progressed, repressed, rest, stressed, suppressed, transgressed, unaddressed, undressed, unimpressed, unrest, wrest. |
| 3 | -e" s t | acquiesced, arrest, assessed, attest, behest, bequest, best, blessed, blest, Celeste, chest, coalesced, confessed, congest, detest, digest, dispossessed, divest, fessed, finessed, gest, guessed, guest, infest, ingest, invest, jest, lest, messed, molest, nest, northwest, obsessed, pest, possessed, professed, quest, rearrest, reassessed, recessed, reinvest, repossessed, request, retest, southwest, suggest, test, vest, West, zest. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: abaters. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: abaser, abater, abates, barest, baster, breast, rabats, reatas, tabers. | |
-2 letters: abase, abate, abets, areas, aster, bares, baser, baste, bates, bears, beast, beats, betas, braes, brats, rabat, rates, reata, saber, sabra, sabre, stare, taber, tabes, tares, tears. | |
-3 letters: abas, abet, arbs, area, ares, arse, arts, asea, ates, baas, bare, bars, base, bast, bate, bats, bear, beat, best, beta, bets, brae, bras, brat, ears, east, eats, eras, erst, etas, rase, rate, rats, rebs, rest, rets, sabe, sate, sear, seat, sera, seta, stab, star, tabs, tare, tars, tear, teas, tsar. | |
-4 letters: aas, aba, abs, arb, are, ars, art, ate, baa, bar, bas, bat, bet, bra, ear, eat, era, ers, eta, ras, rat, reb, res, ret, sab, sae, sat, sea, ser, set, tab, tae, tar, tas, tea. | |
-5 letters: aa, ab, ae, ar, as, at, ba, be, er, es, et, re, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: abreacts, antbears, arbalest, bearcats, cabarets, cabresta, ratsbane, tabarets. | |
+2 letters: aberrants, abrogates, abstainer, acerbates, adsorbate, alabaster, arbalests, ascorbate, astrolabe, aubretias, aubrietas, bacterias, baratheas, bareboats, barraters, betrayals, breakfast, cabrestas, cabrettas, crabmeats, ratsbanes, saturable, teaboards. | |
+3 letters: abnegators, abstainers, abstracted, abstracter, adsorbates, adumbrates, aerobatics, alabasters, algebraist, antirabies, approbates, arbitrages, arbitrates, ascorbates, astrolabes, backwaters, balustrade, bandmaster, barratries, bastardies, bastardise, bastardize, bathwaters, brachiates, breakfasts, calibrates, carbamates, carbonates, carpetbags, elaborates, fabricates, fastballer, heartbeats, masturbate, pasteboard, rabbinates, sailboater, skateboard, tablatures, tablewares, trabeculas. | |
+4 letters: abbreviates, aberrations, abreactions, absorptance, abstracters, abstractest, abstractive, alabastrine, albatrosses, algebraists, arabilities, arbitragers, arborvitaes, backscatter, backstabber, bacteremias, balustraded, balustrades, bandmasters, barbarities, bardolaters, baronetages, bastardised, bastardises, bastardized, bastardizes, bitartrates, blackhearts, blackwaters, brainteaser, breadbasket, breakfasted, breakfaster, breakwaters, breastplate, broadcasted, broadcaster, bureaucrats, erasability, exacerbates, fastballers, flabbergast, harvestable, heartbreaks, interabangs, masturbated, masturbates, pasteboards, portabellas, rebroadcast, restartable, sailboaters, sandblaster, satirizable, sauerbraten, skateboards, starboarded, tabernacles, talebearers, tarnishable, trabeations, traversable, treasonable, treasonably, treasurable. | |
+5 letters: abbreviators, absorptances, abstractable, abstractedly, abstractness, ambulatories, antechambers, antiliberals, arbitrageurs, arbitraments, azotobacters, backscatters, backstabbers, bacteriostat, bacteriurias, barbiturates, bardolatries, bearbaitings, bicarbonates, bilateralism, biomaterials, brainteasers, breadbaskets, breakfasters, breakfasting, breastplates, broadcasters, carboxylates, collaborates, contrabasses, contrastable, debarkations, decarbonates, distractable, distrainable, elaborations, embarkations, entablatures, flabbergasts, forecastable, hairbreadths, hairsbreadth, halterbreaks, handbreadths, handsbreadth, harbormaster, laboratories, labradorites, leatherbacks, libertarians, meprobamates, overabstract, perambulates, plasterboard, prebreakfast, quarterbacks, racquetballs, rattlebrains, readjustable, rebroadcasts, recalibrates, restrainable, sandblasters, sauerbratens, scatterbrain, secobarbital, semiabstract, separability, shareability, skateboarder, standardbred, subsaturated, subterranean, talebearings, trailblazers, trainbearers, transferable, transfusable, translatable, transmutable, transposable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 62 72 65 61 73 74 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -... .-. . .- ... - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100010 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A b r e a s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0062 0072 0065 0061 0073 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35688471678586 |
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